On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 07:45 +0000, Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 07:04:57AM -0000, Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote: > > > > You seem to have missed this in Adam's email > > No, I don't missed anything. > > > i) just getting things right so we don't need a giant pile of > > configuration tools > > ii) tools written at more appropriate layers, mainly desktop > > environments > > "so we don't need" What is his mean about "WE" ?! > > * professional and long time system administrators? > * Fedora developers? > * amateur users? special users who come from windows?
The specific example I was thinking about there was hardware configuration. Once Upon A Time, almost every distro had a big shiny configuration tool you could use to configure X - you'd tell it what graphics card you had, and what resolution and refresh rate you wanted, and it had all sorts of whizzy buttons for doing other things. We had similar tools for configuring sound cards. Now we don't have that, because we decided that instead of spending all this time maintaining that stuff, we should just make X figure out your hardware configuration and set itself up properly. So now it auto- detects what card you have and loads the right driver, and auto-detects the native resolution and refresh rate of your monitor so you don't have to tell a configuration tool what they are. So we don't have system-config-display any more, because it's not necessary. The desktop environments each have their own tool for using non-default resolutions and arranging multi-head displays and stuff, which means they only have to get written once per desktop (every distro can use the same ones). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
